Overdrape material 1n Rayon and Cot- ton. Colors of Rust, Green, Turquoise, Blue or Natural. 50 inch wide. Reg. $3.00

per yard for

pink over plaid. now

.|-,-

MGDRE £~ W-‘LEODW

$1.98 yd.

Heavy cretonne Drapery. Rose ground with Blue damask pattern. 48" wide. Reg. $2.50 for

“u. . ..$l.98 yd.

».

Ciiathuin Blankets. 5 per cent wool, 95 per cent cotton. Size 72x82. White with '

Reg. $6.95 pair- $5.95 pr.

1 y‘ vim 'Fall slim n Export ‘Obieetive

‘in Great Britain I

‘ a; John naupllm c Preae Staff rites

‘ LONDON. May 3i —(C<P) —-‘Be- cause of the winter fuel crisis the government has given up hope of reaching its 1947 export target; 140 percent of 1038 volume by Desert:- ber.

Sir Stafford Orippo. president o! the Board of ‘rrade. says the best Britain can expect i-e to "get. near the target."

Regardless of what the yearverd monthly rate of exlports is. tote! 1047 shipments abroad will be far below the planned figure.

Britain has lost 88.000.000.000 worth of exports as a result of the fuel crisis." Sir Stafford told n Bristol meeting. “That means that we have lost the capacity to im-" port 900,000,000 worth of urgent-

machinery."

through the import list to where savings can be made. Ma- chinery to increase the productiv- ity of British factories has an over- all priority but food and material imports likely will be cut. Downing street spokesmen re- port that “internally. things look a bit better.” primarily because coal output has been higher than expected. Industry generally u re-

Seven Savings in the

House Furnishings

Departme nt Second Floor

Overdrope material inicotton brocade. Rose shade only. 50" wide. Reg. $2.00

yd. for

Cotton Comforters. Size 66 x 72. Cover- ed in gay floral prints. Reg. $5.50 each,

llOW

Rayon self-stripe wide. Choice of Blue

yd. for

r

for

ceiving the same amount of coal as lest summer. It is estimated; this means that- manufactuirngi will be about 9-10 of present fac- ory capacity.

But despite this apparent rapid zcovery, business experts predict hat the fuel crisis still will be re~ | iected in Britain's exiport figures. next spring, particularly in the‘ heavy engineering and shipbuild- Lug industries.

Many exhibitors at the British

lmirlgham were forced to refusei

lmany orders from overseas buyers

the Financial Times index of pro- l

of all commodities from 110.9 in January to 86.0. This does not in- dicate the full extent of the loss since British industry is so lightly

gonannorrrzrowu GUARDIAN Mr. Vaughan liuerieii.

lie Provision For Potato Warehouse

eial report of the proceedings be- fore the sessions! committee "of the House of Commons on rail- ways and shipping, April 29. with Mr. R. C. Vaughan. C.M.G., presi- dent of the Canadian National Railways. being examined as a witness:

Mr. Hatfield (Victoria-Carleton. NB): Has any consideration been given to the building of a frost- proof potato house on the main- land across from Borden?

Mr. Vaughan: The matter has been talked about on different occasions. We did not feel that‘

ly needed flood. raw materials and ' save a lot. o! time

l ‘lteasury experts now are going ntor cars cross to the island and see: probably half the cars you take lover there are full of ice. They. lare set out on some siding and]

f the mainland.

industries fair here and in Bir- l e1’ by l!" C-PR- 01' U16 B. 6t A-

because of shortages of fuel. ra.v l YcSi/igﬂiion of that not so very ‘materials. bottles and containers ilong e80. and we found out that 3 During February. month of the l most railways over there did not fuel-caused industrial stoppage. i own the. potato warehouses.

duclion reported a drop in ou.out have been a changg lately‘

entiy. We sent people to investi- gate that.

it was an obligation of the rail» way. ~

Mr. Hatfield: It should be an obligation of the reilwsy. You in your re-

frigerator cars. ‘These refriger-

can't be used while the ice is in. them. They have to be shipped. to some division point and have! the ice taken out of them. and it very often takes as much as ten days to get the car back into serv- l ice, before it can be returned to‘

Mr. Vaughan: That matter hasi been up on different occasions. Mr. Hatfield. and the position we. have always taken is that it was y not an obligation of the railway but rather an obligation of the potato growers. i

Mr. Hatfield: Well. I think it; is an obligation of the railway.‘- myself. In the state of Maine practically all, at least half of the potato warehouses are owned eith-

Rsilway. y Mr. Vaughan: We made an in-

Mr. Hatfield: Well, there must Mr. Vaughan: That is just rec-

M1‘. Hatfield: I think it would‘

The following ts from the offi-

Special RAINCOATS

Clearing

DRESSMAKER SUITS From . . . . . . . . .

BLOUSES, Worth upto $4.95. Soiled Clearinlg at

BATHING SUITS, $4.50 to $5.50 Clearing

JUST ARRIVED ~ .. $1.45 to $3.50 $1.59 to $6.25

CHIALDREN’S SWEATERS Coat and Pull0ver............

CHILDREN’? "l-“WTQW

l marl W W0n’t Miss These 2nd Floor SPECIALS Friday and Saturday

PLAIN CREPE DRESSES Worthto$l1.95...........................

PLAIN CREPE AND WASH DRESSES

$10.95 &$12.95

$1.00 yd.

integrated that a drop in output in one section may take weekJ. even months, to be reflected else- where. . One of the most serious effects of the fuel shortage was a iirou in steel production. Compared with anticipated demand for 10.000000

Drapery Yelour in Ros-e or Blue, single sided. 50 inch wide. Reg.

e so... ...

tons during 1947. output at one stage dropped lo a rate oi 10.00.3900 tons a year and there is little hope ‘ of importing enough to fill the.

$4.25 each .‘“"‘ _________ > snow GEESE narrow r0 MANITOBA warlms Drapery. 50 inches

Blue and lesser SXZCW geest- paused

or Green. $2.00 .. $1.00 yd.

spring on their _the first time they have done so

ing schools became years ago. $175 Yd- After tile establishment of

$1.75 yd. R..C.A.F. schools.

Alberta. the first such recorded. With war-time

geese will resume their

you know the average time a re- {rigerator is over there after it c

turns.

able delay. Just as haven't the figures with me. but

WINNIPEG. May 2o - (or) - i “m” m" t° b! ti" we ~

mtoba lakes and ‘was this refrigerator cars come back full of

°“ Ma nights llvrthward ice. and that is one of the great difficulties in the winter shipping

since R.C.A.F. gunnery and bomb- 59359“ n “P191195 i0 NEW Bruns- acllve {our wick as well as to the Island. Half

the cars are placed on the siding

the End when you go to load them gftlcularly n‘ you will find there is so much Mudomyd, the we“ rested h. the ice in them that they cannot be, Dakotas and Iowa and then flew ""5 ""1511 lhly have been taken. non-stop to Hudson Bay. Last year‘ “w”? 9° 8 division Dvinl there was a small flight through‘ thawed out. and that. of course. involves deinurrage flying activities “s11 as delay. ceased. naturalists are hoping the W!“ It. U16 division point for_ normal weeks before they can get a. crew-

save the railways a lot of money and they would be rendering a useful public service. particularly to Island shippers; and then if you could get a lot of cars across in the fall of ‘the year and have storage on the mainland you would save a great many delays.

Mr. Vaughan: Mr. Walton. do

eves the mainland until it re-

Mr. Walton: There is consider- you say. I

“.01. DRESSES ill Sire"

SMALL BOY’S KSITTED AND corrou sun's from

S.

PHC-l ._ it

Mr. Hatfield: Most of these

anti

charges Sometimes

as they

make deficits."

A senior British military gov: crnment. official. WM asked @115" his name not be used. said Ger- man farmers in Westphalia had “with sticks nnd stones‘ authorities seized illegally lioarded food and

resisted when

Sewall demanded that the Ger- mans stamp out the black mar- ket, which he said is dissiPatinfl much of their food rations. and declared that the “military 80V- ernment will not be a Pill-Y t0 asking the American taxpayer to black market

up these

German

MAYQ; .

a $5.00 I $3.00 i‘! $8.95

e e

$2.00 $2.00

$1.25 to $2.25 0A. McDonald .

,....au STREET

said that flylnﬂ squadrons of British specialists. now touring the British zone to ferret out. such hoards. had ord- ered the seizure of 1.800 cattle 1B Westphalia alone. ey and Sir Sholto said in th r statement that the reason food import quotas had not nl- ways been met was "due solely to the universal shortage which is the direct consequence of the war and which has put all western Europe on rations not very much better than those of Germany." "At the present time shipments from America have been accel-

The official

had

crated and upon their arrival int- provement. with more regular dir- trlbution can be expected." the officials said.

_ FIGHT MALABIK ""

SUVA. Fiji — (GP) — Briiain'i recent grant of 549.600 to Fill 1°‘ tnalaria. control brings the total Britain has spent to date on thii vital service to more than 0860.001 and is another step in the prover: tive battle against maiaria-carryinl mosquito in those southwest Pao ific islands so far free from illl scourge.

cattle.

GHARLOTTETUWN. P. E. I.

route. But B.W. Cartwright. chief to take the ice out.

L

naturalist for Ducks Unlimited. is! cautious. “The geese are showing extreme restlessness and a diver- gence from their nonnai ilabits. Their whole behavior is l». a state

J

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Never add to the dirtieee of

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Pepin-Dental

NOW YOU SHOULD TIIAT AN

UPSIT SIOMACH

A eiek stomach should be bellied. Treat it [ﬁlly Iltll soothing PEPTO-BEBAlAL.

WHAT PIPTO-IISMAI. DOIS

Pepto-Beemel spreads a soothing coating over atom- aoh and intestinal wall: to relieve indigestion. usuall- heartburn. eirnnle diarrhoea. retards gee formation. sweet- eae sour stomach.

WHAT CAUSI!

IISII STOMACIIT Upset etmaeb la eaueed l?! irregular living . . . MI- ﬂhg and atbl lees.

o 0P$E1 STOMl10ll 0 AFTER-EATING IIISTIIESSES o llElllTBllllI

Every day more people are learn- ing with happy surprise how

gently Illlhel I

stomach upset from overeating and other excesses.

Air. err and sea sickness us also common lorme of Upset Stomach.

WHAT l5 PlPTO-BISMAL? PaptoBeewai is a compound al lii|h pharmaceutical .1- irellence. it her. looea devel- oped with greatest cnra to aasura rohel from common upset stomach. Peptobesmsl is a soothing. pleasant-tasting Inrmuia. It is neither a laxative nor an antacid. WHIN YO USE IlPTO-BISMAI.

Keep a bottle of Pepin- Bumal an hand always. At the ﬁrst sign of alteneetlnl or etha- iiilf.r_ from aa- eesee use soothing Pepto- Besiaai.

MIG All ﬁll MAKIIS OI PIPTO-IISMAIJ

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of flux and it's difficult to make predictions." he says. ays ore m... n.

POSTURE AT WORK

Working positions not only have important relationship to‘ health. but have direct beariing on output. National Health officers at Ottaiwa emphasize that contfortalole work- ing positions help prevent fatigue. Adjustable seats facilitate good pos- ture and desks and work-tables ‘with tops which can be slanted. encour- age keeping i he head up. rattler than bent over the job.

Money Needed

(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. May 19—The Com- mons committee on radio broad- casting was told today that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporat- ion will have to cut down its ser- vice by next year unless more money is made available.

A. D. Duriton. chairman of the CBC board of govemore. and Dr. Augustin Frigon. CBC general manager. told the committee that the Corporation, faced with stead- ily mountlng deﬁcits. already had out some of its program eoets a“ would have to make further cur- tailmente if more revenue was not forthcoming.

Sentenced

Dr. Frigon. presentini a finan- cial report, after Mr. Dunton ties- tified that ﬂnences were the CB0‘: hieeeel worry. ma tote-er’ had ended with a deficit of I10,- 000 and a deficit of 8205.000 was expected for 1947-45,

Mr. Vaughan: Well. any superintendent allows a thing l'ke that to happen he should not be there very long. We will oer. llillly look into the matter of the operation of refrigerator‘ cars on the Island. I know that the Mono. ton officials give very close at- tention to that matter. We cer- ilihly want to keep the Yéfrlggr. ator cars moving on the line and keep them loaded. y Mr. Hatfield: ‘rhey go eve;- 9,0 the Island full of ice or some- lvhlh! else. and then they come back to be loaded with potatoes 01‘ iilfﬂiils or some kinds of vege- tables and the ice has to be taken out.

Mr. Vaughan: A ggeat many gouty refrigerators go over there

Mr. Hatfield: I know, a grggt many; hut there is a lot of trou. ble with this toe to which I hgvg referred.

Mr- Vllllhan: we "in look into that icing situation certainly.

if

Germans Warned To Stop llrumlillng

By BIOEAID KAIIIUCIIII. BBRLDV. May 20 - (A?) The American and British mili-

Both Mr. Dunton and Dr. Fri. gon repeated a request of last year that the CBC be allowed full returns from the $2.50 nil-lug! licence fee. The Corporation now h“ i0 Day the cost of collections and administration and receives H" Hvlrase of $2.15 per licence.

Mr. Dunton seid that because the CBC was a national broad- g casting service it felt that an ex- cess of time should not be taken up by commercial program,

I "We feel that at present. needl

for revenues has pushed th 0o .

poratlon irito eoceptins too ematiy h. 1. In,‘ N“ n y." 1:1“ soime pgrfp of m, Ietdlefalesleteethegreea

e uea n a nte te ofgood '

broadcasting. If wemheve the m m ‘h. "Yhik funds we should like to replace I! d It'd! Illi-

sorne commercials with good cm. edian non-commercial program." The costs to the 03C had steadily risen in reeent-yeerswhtle mevenues remained stable.

l\i.lllq.lfliltk

.ll~;

lﬂllillill

' i man people today to stop striking

tary governors warned the Ger-

and grumbling qainat the Allies and face the present food crisis with "hard work and courage."

In a special proclamation. Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Air Marshal ‘Sir Sholto Douglas sharply told German political and trade union leaders they "should face real. ities and shoulder squarely their obligations to their country and fellow citizens."

An even warning wee issued by Sumner Bewail. Ameri- can milltary government director in Wuarttemberg-Baden, who said that protest ltrikee against: the 1M shortage might cost the Germans relief supplies from the United lteiaa.

Demonstrations by Germans are causing "increased resistance" nv

American taxpayers to further al- location of American food to Germany. eewell said in a broad- eeet speech.

2 SINCE

I

o i ﬁdij%_ 1460i? I “x750” '51)”

£947

too vaaas aoo in can-do. mil was delivered by couriers who collected the postage in cash. The ﬁrst sewing machine resulted in a ript among em- ployees 0t’ master sailors. There were only a few struggling newspaperl. I04 only the beginning of a railway.

Under euch conditions had during a period oi’ acute national instability, the

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Thou h ma!!! agree!

Canada Life was boro- ﬁoencial institutions felled in depression which followed. the C“;

Life, founded on a sound and cooler" "_ basie,'weathered the storm. It he! Pm‘

greased throu h 100 year! 0f Wig’ Qpldgml on depressions. lﬂ h‘ meantime life insurance has become Q0 accepted means by which Canadians e h guard the security of their dependentl-

l-zfilitdhlvilpn LIFE

. ASSURANCE 00MPdNY i JOHN MacKlNNON, C.L.U., Supervisor W. WILLIS R. E. YOUNKH R. S. RAMSAY, Siinunerside

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